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12 the woman made ſuch a noiſe and crying when he was raviſhing her, it has put the poor man quire deaf, I aſſure you Is it ſo? ſays the Juſtice. No, no, ſays the woman, my Lord Juſtice, you may believe me, I lay as mute as a lamb, and never spoke a word all the time. Very well con- feſſed, said the juſtice, and you have ſworn a rape upon him ; Take the whore to priſon, and let the poor man go about his beſineſſ, and ſo it ended.

PART II.

GEORGE happened one time to be in com- pany with a biſhop, and so they fell to dif. pula Hoent education, and he blanked the biſhop remarkably, and the biſhop himſelf owned he was worſted-Then one of the company addreſſ- ed himſelf to him in theſe words, thou, Scot, ſaid he, ſhould not have left the country. For what ? ſays he. Because tlou bufe carried all the wiſdom that is in it thither with thee. No, no, ſays he the Shepherds in Scotland will diſpute with any biſhop in London, and exceed them very far in education: The biſhops then took this as an affront and ſeveral noblemen affirmed it to be as the Scot had ſaid ; beats were laid on each ſide, and three of the bishops were choſen;